DOVE Chocolate instagrants and Indiegogo!

It’s been a minute since we’ve written a post but the Faena team has been sitting on some secrets. ;)

Until now!

In December we applied to DOVE® Chocolate’s $10k InstaGrants pitch competition, and in January we found that Faena was one of 5 winners! The idea is to help close the funding gap that female founders face, because women entrepreneurs are 63% less likely to receive funding compared to males. And while it was exciting enough to win $10k non-dilutive capital so we can continue to pay our team, when we met with the DOVE® InstaGrants team we found that it was much, much more than a check.

They partnered us with Indiegogo to help us design and launch a crowdfunding campaign! That campaign is now live to the public today! Check it out to be part of our startup journey and the Faena video game world in development. Perks range from $5 to $500 so there is something there for anyone that wants to support us. :)

We’ve managed to raise just over $1k as of 2/17. We’re shooting for $20k of funding so that the Faena team can build and release the 1st chapter of the full Faena world, an expansion on our demo (on sale now!) that we released earlier this year and that is now being played in 3 U.S. schools.

Then the DOVE® InstaGrants team went one step further and arranged for some VC’s around the U.S. to receive a gift package on Valentines Day that included many chocolates (obviously) but also some QR codes to holograms of each of the winners pitching directly to the VC’s! You can watch each of our pitches here.

The DOVE® InstaGrants and Indiegogo teams have been enormously helpful throughout this whole process of launching our campaign and helping female founders get a leg up! Here’s a press article by KRQE news on all that they’ve done for us if anyone wants to read more.

Stay tuned for more updates!!